To Samuel Smiles 15 December 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Dec 15. 1876
Dear Sir,
I am very much obliged for the kind present of your ‘Life of a Scotch Naturalist’ which I have begun to read. I shall be greatly surprised if it does not interest me in a high degree, for I have read with extreme pleasure every one, as I believe, of your other biographies.1
I remain dear Sir, yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Smiles, Samuel. 1857. The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer. London: John Murray.
Smiles, Samuel. 1876. Life of a Scotch naturalist: Thomas Edward, associate of the Linnean Society. London: John Murray.
Summary
Thanks SS for present of Life of a Scotch naturalist [1876]. Has read every one of his biographies with "extreme pleasure".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10720
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Samuel Smiles
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (SMILES/DARWIN, formerly MS 97–1947)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10720,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10720.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
